Table Lamp Sources & Upcycles
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today we light up your life, literally, with great sources for finding and upcycling table lamps.
Sharing loads of useful information that will make shopping for or creating the perfect table lamp a cinch.
Height of a table lamp is generally 26 -31 inches.
Parts: base, harp, shade, finial
There are parts of your lamp you should not see. Listen in to learn what the shade should hide.
Upcycle an old or ugly lamp with spray paint or Rub & Buff. Get Rub & Buff HERE.
Check out this very inexpensive metal cage lamp by Better Homes & Gardens HERE.
Anita has several favorite lamps.
Farrington Gurney table lamp HERE
Ceramic cylinder lamp HERE
Diep table lamp HERE
Set of gold table lamps HERE
Kelly's crush is a band she has enjoyed for years: Everything But The Girl - Album Idlewild. Check it out HERE.
Anita's crush is The Durrell's of Corfu on PBS. See HERE.
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| 0:00.0 | We're shining the light on lamps today. Listen in. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Kelly Wilkins here with Anita Joyce, and this is Decorating Tips and Tricks, Episode 377. |
| 0:19.4 | Lamp sources and up cycles and a few more items all about lamps tossed into the mix. |
| 0:28.0 | Lamps are difficult. I find lamps very challenging. I don't think Anita finds lamps as challenging as I do. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, I'm very, very picky. So it is challenging for me because I have a hard time finding something that I really love. |
| 0:42.7 | So that makes it challenging for me. |
| 0:46.0 | And I think the right lamp can really elevate a space and the wrong lamps, I think, can really bring it down. |
| 0:53.4 | So I think it is something that is one of those, |
| 0:56.6 | you know, some things you can kind of get away with, do whatever, but I think the lamps that, |
| 1:01.1 | I think those are key. I think you're absolutely right. In fact, I know you're absolutely right, |
| 1:06.5 | but I'm not sure that people think about lamps as much as they should. |
| 1:14.0 | And maybe I overthrink the lamp. |
| 1:16.2 | That's why I struggle with them. |
| 1:17.8 | But here's what I find about lamps. |
| 1:20.6 | A lot of lamps are super, super expensive. |
| 1:23.7 | And even though I believe that it's a very important element in so many levels of your decor, |
| 1:29.9 | not the look and the shape and getting the lamp itself right, but how the lamp works with |
| 1:35.0 | everything else in your room, but the all-important illumination and the color of the light |
| 1:40.7 | that's coming out and all of that is so important. |
| 1:43.2 | So there are so many things, |
| 1:45.4 | the functionality, where the cord gets hidden. I mean, we can keep going on and on about things |
| 1:49.9 | that involve a lamp in a room and how it impacts your decor. But do you hear people thinking |
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